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HANSARDDigital Safety: ChildrenMy Lords, there is total agreement across the House that children must be protected from harms online. Noble Lords will recall that amendments tabled by my noble friend Lord Nash…09 Jun 2026HANSARDArtificial Intelligence: Impact on Human Relationships and SocietyMy Lords, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness … it was the season of Light, it was the season of…05 Jun 2026HANSARDAI Regulation BillI add my thanks to my noble friend Lord Holmes for bringing this debate forward today. It is a complex area, and we would all agree that it is difficult to do it justice with such…04 Jun 2026HANSARDSporting Events Bill [HL]As others have said, it is a pleasure to speak after such an august gathering of former Olympians, sporting legends, relatives and “Flying Fullers”. Of course, it is a pleasure to…03 Jun 2026HANSARDSovereign AI FundMy Lords, the Competition and Markets Authority has expressed concerns that AI may entrench the market power of a small number of cloud providers. If the sovereign AI fund is not…01 Jun 2026HANSARDKing’s SpeechMy Lords, I declare an interest as a founder of a health tech company, HealthTech Fund, which is likely to have many investments in the AI space. It is late, so I will not try to…19 May 2026HANSARDEU-UK SPS Agreement: Food-related StandardsMy Lords, I beg leave to ask the Question standing in my name on the Order Paper, and declare an interest as chair of a biotech company.18 May 2026HANSARDEU-UK SPS Agreement: Food-related StandardsI thank the noble Baroness for her Answer, and I am very encouraged by her response, because in this area I have seen first-hand how we have used our innovation and flexibility to…18 May 2026HANSARDEU-UK SPS Agreement: Food-related StandardsTo ask His Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to maintain regulatory flexibilities and innovation in fields such as novel foods and precision fermentation in the…18 May 2026HANSARDUK Biobank DataMy Lords, I thank the Minister for the Statement. This is clearly a serious incident that goes to the heart of public trust in one of our most important research assets. I pay…28 Apr 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillMy Lords, I begin on a personal note. As I have mentioned in previous debates, my mother was a Marie Curie nurse who supported terminally ill people through their final days. In…24 Apr 2026HANSARDHealth and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) (Amendment) Regulations 2026My Lords, I declare my interest as the founder and director of Cignpost Express Test, which did a lot of Covid testing for sports events and currently does health screening at PGA…15 Apr 2026HANSARDHealth and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) (Amendment) Regulations 2026If I may, I hope this may be helpful: the confusion that I have heard is over whether a doctor, for a CQC registration at their GP surgery, can use that to volunteer on a…15 Apr 2026HANSARDAI Growth LabMy Lords, my experience as Health Minister in this space is that we have fantastic innovation and fantastic pilots: the joke in the NHS is that the NHS has more pilots than…26 Mar 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillAs requested, I was waiting until the noble Baroness had moved her amendment—13 Mar 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillI was trying to respond to the noble Baroness’s request not to be intervened on during her speech, but I have some questions on what she was talking about. I am now concerned that…13 Mar 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillI thank noble Lords. I totally appreciate that the noble Baroness’s intention in all this is to try to make the process as robust as possible and she gave a very moving example of…13 Mar 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillI was specifically referring to: “The person’s health or social care professional cannot participate in any part of the assessment for a person’s request of an assisted death”.…13 Mar 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillThe noble Lord was at pains to say that he felt that assisted dying was somehow not a compassionate part of care, but will he accept that, for some people, it is the true…13 Mar 2026HANSARDTerminally Ill Adults (End of Life) BillIs there not a critical difference, when we talk about conflicts of interest, in that, in this case, this will be law—something that has been passed by Parliament? I do not…27 Feb 2026